Learn While Dying – Exploration Approaches in the Lands of Great Peril!


Warning!

This event is not a current year's event. Below is for informational and historical purposes only!

Start Date & Time Thursday - 9:00 AM CST
Duration 2.0 hours
Type Role Playing Game
System D&D 5E
Location Monona at tables 236-237
Gaming Experience Some Gaming Experience
Age Range All Ages (6+)
Host Teos Abadia

Ticket Information

Cost $10.00
Availability 2 of 12 available

Feeling a bit… lost when it comes to choosing exploration rules for your games? Has it been too long since you bled out in the wilderness? Solve both of these problems in this combination seminar and game! Participants will team up, two players for each character, deciding how to traverse a dangerous wilderness. Designer Teos “I once was lost, but now I’m found” Abadia will pull back the curtain to discuss exploration rules as we use them. Gear up to consider everything from a loose narrative approach to tight procedural hexploration and alternatives in between, how to handle encounters and damaging scenarios, assigning skill difficulties, weather, getting lost, indoor options, and above all… how to have fun with exploration!
Time will be available at the end to have an open discussion and answer questions. This event uses the D&D 5E rules, but the lessons apply to other RPGs and Teos is prepared to discuss other systems. 

Special Guest

Teos Abadia

Teos Abadía is a Colombian-American freelance author and developer working with Wizards of the Coast, MCDM, Penny Arcade, Dwarven Forge, Hasbro, and several organized play programs. Teos was the managing director for Draw Steel's mega-adventure Crack the Sun and a primary author on both the Acquisitions Incorporated D&D book and on the Forge of Foes guide to creating and running monsters. Board game work includes the HeroQuest game relaunch. Blogging at Alphastream.org and podcasting on Mastering Dungeons, Teos shares knowledge and advocates for diversity and better industry pay. Reports that he was created by tinker gnomes in a device powered by space hamsters are incorrect… it leaves out the important role played by flumphs.